"Suborned in the U.S.A."

"Suborned in the U.S.A."

Andrew McCarthy's article over at National Review Online has a very clever pun on Bruce Springsteen's song, "Born in the U.S.A." but the article itself is worth reading in full. McCarthy finds the idea that Obama wasn't born in Hawaii very unlikely--but makes the point, quite powerfully, that Obama behaves like he is hiding something. It might not be the problem that the birthers think (is he a natural born citizen?) but something that would expose Obama's claims about himself as a fraud:

The primary qualification supporters offered for Obama’s candidacy was his compelling life story, as packaged in 850 pages’ worth of the not one but two autobiographies this seemingly unaccomplished candidate had written by the age of 45.

Yet we now know that this life story is chock full of fiction. Typical and disturbing, to take just one example, is the entirely fabricated account in Dreams from My Father of Obama’s first job after college....

I've previously pointed out that the unwillingness to release the long form birth certificate might be something along these lines--not that he was born in Kenya, but that the tales that he told over the years would reveal him to be less than he pretends. I would encourage you to read the article in full. As the subtitle to the article points out:

The birth-certificate controversy is about Obama’s honesty, not where he was born.

The whole response of the Obama campaign and the DNC to a pretty simple question reminds me of what said when the Lewinsky affair was raging around Bill Clinton. Nixon turned a minor crime that he was not involved in planning or carrying out into a major crime by attempting to obstruct the investigation. Bill Clinton managed to turn something that was merely sleazy, but not illegal (sex with the hired help), into a crime (perjury) with the coverup.